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THE CORRESPONDING MAINSITE TAG HAS BEEN BLACKLISTED. (Click “Learn more…” or “info” for details.) This tag exists only for historical reasons. This tag on Role-Playing Games Meta is primarily used to categorize historical discussions about the former [rules-as-written] mainsite tag.
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Is experience playing a game as valid as citing a rule?
Citing rules is encouraged, BUT…
Yes, citing sources is encouraged. Often, you'll see people linking to SRDs or citing page numbers in answers about rules questions. However, this isn't always possib …
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What are appropriate sources to reference in questions tagged [rules-as-written]?
We can't have policy about this because "RAW" is undefined.
"RAW" taken literally means "rules as written". But nobody who discusses "RAW" actually means "the exact words literally written in the rul …
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk?
I do think we need a tag for the “let's play around with the literal interactions within this game”. It's significant enough as a playstyle, with its own particular issues and problems and needs, that …
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A low-intervention approach [rules-as-written]: back to tagging basics
Sometime during the weeks of wrangling over the rules-as-written tag it occurred to me that, I am pretty sure, we've fallen into a fundamental error that may be the cause of all the problems:
Tags ar …
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Change the definition of "rules-as-written" with respect to D&D 3.5
No.
We don't have the power to dictate how individuals or whole communities interpret a game, which is what you're asking us to do.
Even if we did have the power, using it in this matter contradicts …
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Reviewing the usefulness of type-of-answer tags
Tags should always describe the content of the question. That's the responsibility of the tagger though, not the tag.
All four example bad tags can be used to describe the question, and should only b …
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Are our implicit-information tagging practices becoming a problem?
This is a problem only in the cases where you've noticed a problem: tags that aren't obvious and clear from the question asked. Where the problem can be noticed though, it can be fixed and is already …
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Are we satisfied with the Tag Wiki / Info entry for the RAW Tag?
rules-as-written tag wiki workshop space
Wiki excerpt
Questions that are about the logical interactions of a game's rules under a strictly literal reading. Not for questions about normal clarif …
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The [rules-as-written] tag is a good tag, but we've made it sick. Let's cure it
rules-as-written has two purposes right now:
"this question is about the rules as written"
"answer must obey special rules"
The latter makes it a meta tag. Meta tags are never, in the long run, a …
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